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Dr Brice DIDIER completed his doctoral research in political science at the AV����Ƶ under the co-supervision of Professor René SCHWOK (AV����Ƶ) and Professor Christian LEQUESNE (Sciences Po Paris), on the EU’s foreign policy and the ad hoc initiatives by informal groupings of the ‘big’ member states, in particular the ‘Balkan Contact Group’ initiative on Bosnia and Kosovo, ‘E3’ on the Iran nuclear issue, and ‘Normandy’ on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Entitled “European Union Foreign & Security Policy and Big Member States’ Ad Hoc Initiatives: Solving the Effectiveness-Legitimacy Equation”, his dissertation is the laureate of the Global Strategy PhD Prize 2024 awarded by the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and the Egmont Royal Institute. He conducts a postdoctoral project at SciencesPo’s Center for International Studies (CERI) and the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM) focusing on the EU’s strategic adaptation to the US-China rivalry, which follows the research he also conducted on transatlantic relations and foreign policy strategies for which he was awarded the Sergio Lopez Perona memorial prize 2017 and the AV����Ƶ Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)’ Luke Foster Best Article runner-up prize 2022.

At the AV����Ƶ, Brice DIDIER has been teaching in the Bachelor’s in International Relations and the Master’s in European Studies on international relations, transatlantic relations, European integration, institutions and policies, EU external relations, and research approaches and processes in political science and international relations, and supervised students for their research theses in international politics and EU studies. He has also taught in the Master of Advanced Studies of the Geneva Center for Security Policy and Global Studies Institute, and been invited in various other programmes as a guest lecturer. A former studies officer in International affairs at the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN) in Paris and academic assistant for the Transatlantic Affairs programme at the College of Europe in Bruges (with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston), he has been a visiting researcher at the European AV����Ƶ Institute (EUI) in Florence for a project laureate of the AV����Ƶ and Geneva Graduate Institute’s “Doc.Mobility” programme, at the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) in Brussels, and a Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute.

Prior to his doctorate, he graduated from the College of Europe in Bruges (Master of Arts in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies), the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne AV����Ƶ (Master’s in Geopolitics), and Sciences Po Rennes (Master's in European and International Affairs, Master’s in Risk Management, Bachelor in Public Administration). His background also includes traineeships at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and within its network (San Francisco, Amsterdam, Paris, OECD), and the conduct of negotiation and publishing projects.

Publications académiques

Articles de revue en double-blind peer-review

• Didier, Brice (2021), “Reacting to the Decline of the West? The European Union’s Embrace of Strategic Hedging”, European Review of International Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 191-220: /
• Didier, Brice (2021), “The European Union and the Liberal International Order in the Age of ‘America First’: Attempted Hedging and the Willingness-Capacity Gap”, Journal of Contemporary European Research, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 23-42: �� [lauréat du Luke Foster Best Article Runner-Up Prize 2022]

Chapitre d’ouvrage

• Schunz, Simon & Brice Didier (2019), "The European Union’s evolving global role in response to US waning hegemony”, in Massie, Justin & Jonathan Paquin (eds), America’s allies and the decline of US hegemony, London, Routledge, pp. 176-193: ��
  
  

Working paper

• Didier, Brice (2017), “The Syrian Conflict and Russia’s Search for Regional Hegemony in a Contested Middle East: Implications for the Euro-Atlantic Community”, EU Diplomacy Papers, no. 10/2017, Bruges, October:

Policy briefs

• Didier, Brice (2021), “A more balanced US-EU strategic equation? Reshaping the transatlantic agenda”, CEPOB – College of Europe Policy Brief series, no. 2.21, Bruges, March:
• Didier, Brice (2018), “The regionalisation of counter-terrorism strategies in the Sahel: the G5 as a challenge for transatlantic relations”, CEPOB – College of Europe Policy Brief series, no. 10.18, Bruges, June:
• Didier, Brice (2017), “European Union and United States approaches towards Egypt: the trap of short-term realism”, CEPOB – College of Europe Policy Brief series, no. 12.17, Bruges, November:��